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Born in 1901; entered RN as Paymaster Cadet, 1919; served on HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA, Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1921; Midshipman, 1920; Lt, 1923; served on HMS CASTOR and HMS CALLIOPE, Atlantic Fleet, 1923-1925, and HMS BENBOW and HMS CARDIFF, Mediterranean Fleet, 1925-1929; Secretary to Capt of Fleet, HMS NELSON, Atlantic Fleet, 1929-1931; Lt Cdr, 1931; served on HMS GANGES, 1931-1933, and HMS VICTORY, 1933; Secretary to R Adm Everard John Hardman-Jones, Rosyth, 1933-1935; served on HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN, Home Fleet, 1935-1936, and HMS HERALD, South China Fleet, 1936-1939; Cdr, 1939; served on HMS PRESIDENT, HMS DAEDALUS and HMS HERON, 1939-1942; served on HMS KORONGO, East Indies, 1942-1944, and HMS NIGHTJAR, HMS CONDOR, HMS PRESIDENT and HMS IMPLACABLE, 1944-1949; Capt, 1949; Fleet Supply Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, 1950-1952; Capt-in-Command, Base Supply Officer and Staff Supply Officer to Flag Officer Malta and Staff Supply Officer to Mediterranean Flotillas, HMS PHOENICIA, 1952-1954; Senior Supply Officer, Royal Naval Base, Devonport, HMS DRAKE, 1954-1955; retired from RN, 1955; died in 1992.

Born in 1889; Army Schoolmaster, 1918-1921; 2nd Lt, Army Educational Corps, 1921; Lt, 1923; Capt, 1931; Instructor, Army School of Education, 1931-1936; Maj, 1943; Education Officer, Northern Command, 1947-[1949]; Col, 1949; died in 1981.

Worked as a journalist for The Chicago Evening Post, 1927; editor of The Chicago Daily News [1928-1948]; worked for The Chicago Tribune, 1948; Second Assistant editor, The American Peoples Encyclopedia, 1953.Publications: The lives and legends of Buffalo Bill (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 1960).

Born in 1896; served in World War One, 1914-1918; 2nd Lt 1914; service with The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regt) [1915-1917]; Lt 1916; joined Indian Army, 1917; awarded MC, 1918; Capt, 1919; Maj, 1933; service with 6 Royal Bn (Scinde), 13 Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, Kohat, Razmak and Ahmednager, North West Frontier, India, 1935-1939; qualified as Higher Standard Interpreter in Pashto, 1936; Lt Col, 1938; Commanding Officer, 6 Royal Bn (Scinde), 13 Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, 1938-1940; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; acting Col, 1940; Col, 1941; served as General Staff Officer 1, 5 Indian Div in operations clearing Italian forces from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Abyssinia,1941; present at Battle of Amba Alagi, Ethiopia, and negotiated surrender of the Italian Gen Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, Commander-in-Chief, Italian forces in East Africa, May 1941; awarded OBE, 1941; Brig, 1942; commanded 5 Indian Infantry Bde, 8 Army, Western Desert, 1942; awarded DSO, 1942; present at Second Battle of El Alamein, Oct 1942; commanded 8 Indian Div in Italy, 1943-1945; awarded CBE, 1944; Maj Gen, 1945; awarded CB, 1945; acting Lt Gen, 1947; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Delhi and East Punjab Command of Indian Army, 1947; Chief British Adviser to the Indian Army, 1948-1954; created KBE, 1950; Lt Gen, 1954; retired, 1954; died in 1978.

Born; 1922, studied history at King's College London, 1941-1944, Captain in the Home Guard during World War Two; died 1994.

Born 1900; Chief Engineer and Director of Carrier Engineering Co Ltd, 1942-1944; died 1977.

Born 1892; Pte, 7 (Cyclist) Bn, Welch Regt, 1908; Sgt, 1914; 2 Lt, Special Reserve, 1915; 16 Bn (Cardiff City), Welch Regt; served in France, Somme, Ypres, 1915-1916; MC, 1917; Company Commander, 1 (Service) Bn, 1918; Reserve of Officers, demobilised, 1919; Recalled to duty, Capt, Maj, Home/Service Bn, Welch Regt, 1939; Seconded to RAF, Lt Col, OC RAF Regiment Units, Operation TORCH, 1942; Commander RAF Regt (CRAFR) Mediterranean theatre, 1942-1945, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia; OBE, CBE, 1945; demobilised, 1945; Chairman of Welch Regt Officers Association, 1950-?; Treasurer, National Museum of Wales, 1963-82; Noted ornithologist, Gold Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), 1971; Died 1985.

Born in 1911; served with RN, World War Two, [1939]-1945; Surgeon Lt Cdr, 1945; service at Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong, 1945-[1947]; HMS VICTORY, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1948-[1950]; acting Surgeon Cdr, 1951; Royal Naval Barracks, HMS DAEDALUS, Royal NAval Air Station, Lee on Solent, Hampshire, 1951-1954; HMS WARRIOR, 1953-1955; Surgeon Cdr, 1954; Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1955-1959; HMS PRESIDENT, 1959-1961; HMS TERROR, RN Base, Singapore, 1961-1963; Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1963-1966; RN Hospital, Malta, 1966-[1970]; died in 1984.